| Hughes, Arkansas School Faculty Memorial |
| Mary Jane (Sanders) Baddour Chandler October 20, 1919 – February 15, 2010 Commercial, Physical Education Tenure: 1941-42 |
| Miss Sanders graduated from Mississippi State College for Women in 1941, after which she accepted a position at Hughes High School to teach commercial subjects and physical education. It was while serving on the HHS faculty that she met and married Hughes resident Paul Baddour, founder of Fred’s Dollar Stores, and they moved to Memphis, Tennessee. After Mr. Baddour died, she married Aubry Chandler. She was a member of Christ Methodist Church of Memphis, and she served as a Pink Lady at Methodist Hospital in Memphis. In addition, Mrs. Chandler delivered Meals on Wheels in Whitehaven, and she was active in the Whitehaven Women’s Club, the Whitehaven Garden Club, and she was an avid bridge player, achieving Life Member status. She was a board member and a life long supporter of the Baddour Center, a residential facility in Senatobia, Mississippi, for the intellectually disabled. Mrs. Chandler died February 15, 2010 at the Baptist Memorial Hospital North Mississippi in Oxford, burial in Forrest Hill Cemetery Midtown, Memphis. |
